Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell Mellett, 54, is a coiner nowadays in the Administration's inner circle. Brother of the late crusading Editor Don Mellett of the Canton, Ohio News, he, too, is a newspaperman of wide experience. This year Franklin Roosevelt signed him on. Fellow newspapermen see him as a candidate being groomed to succeed wily old Charles Michelson, 69. Democratic national pressagent...
...impossible-to-fulfill technicality that extradition papers with full descriptions had to originate from the men's place of conviction, that French officials wanting to extradite men had to present strict evidence of where the crime took place. Since then Trinidad has enjoyed a regular escape season in late spring, when winds and sea are favorable. After being provided with clothing and temporary shelter and food to last 21 days, the convicts are taken 12 miles out to sea, are sent on with a "Good luck, but don't come back...
...morning late in May the Tira was gone from her mooring, and gone from their Santa Cruz homes were Lyle Tara and two of his Irish messmates, 17-year-old James Henninger and 16-year-old William Grace. For weeks there was no word of boys or yacht. Merchant Foote broadcast descriptions of the Tira up & down the coast. Then, 28 days later, the Tira heeled swiftly down Banderas Bay into Puerto Vallarta, 2,000 miles from Santa Cruz, on the west coast of Mexico. News travels slowly from Puerto Vallarta, an isolated fishing village hemmed in by coast ranges...
Died. John Medill McCormick, 21, son of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick and Illinois' onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, grandson of Cleveland's late great politico Mark Hanna, nephew of Chicago Publishing Tycoon Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, fourth generation heir of the Patterson-McCormick newspaper empire (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News}; fortnight ago when he and 20-year-old Princeton Student Richard Whitmer fell from a 2,000-ft. cliff in the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, N. Mex. Searchers, directed by Mrs. Simms, took a week to find McCormick's body...
...Remaining is the last pensioner from the War of 1812: Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 81, of Independence, Ore., daughter of the late Private John Hill of the New York Militia...